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At a time when romantic comedies tend to repeat themselves, "A Big, Bold and Wonderful Journey" takes the risk of proposing something different.
Directed by Kogonada, a filmmaker renowned for his visual sensitivity, the film combines the intimate with the fantastic, offering a story that dazzles aesthetically and reflects on memory and love. The story follows Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell), two strangers who coincide at a wedding and, by chance - or providence - end up linked by a mysterious GPS. The device does not lead them along roads, but through the passages of their own past. Each stop is an encounter with wounds, memories and unresolved affections. What appears to be an accidental journey becomes an inner mirror where both must decide whether to remain trapped in what was or dare to walk towards the new.
The film's great virtue lies in its visual approach (careful framing, silences charged with meaning, moments that seem suspended in time), and Robbie and Farrell bring an understated chemistry, conveying tenderness and melancholy with gestures rather than words, that appeals to a "backpack" audience, who can and should identify the parts of the script that seem terrible as intentional. As two people trying to pretend, not as a script lacking in truth. When the masks of the protagonists fall, the film begins to become an intimate experience about childhood and adolescent traumas that do not allow us to love. The formula to solve them is amusing, at the same time tender and captivating in many occasions. The result is uneven: fascinating in some parts, somewhat cold in others.
Beyond its limitations (sometimes the script suffers a little and leaves the glimpses of truth to be used in set phrases) the film reminds us that no one can run away from his story, but it does not determine us. The fantastic GPS symbolizes that guide that, like God's grace, leads us along unexpected paths towards the essential. Sometimes you just have to take the first step. The first yes. That small leap of faith.
Thus, "A great, bold and wonderful journey" invites us to look at our "traumas", examine our backpack and move forward trusting that even the most painful things can be transformed and that we can all love. Life can always be a bold and wonderful journey. It is up to us.
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